History

Noted by Gastrell that Trinity Chapel belonged to Richmond Castle, and that the mayor and aldermen claim it as their freehold and repair it, 'but it is now so ruinous that the Minister dares not officiate in it. He used formerly to read prayers there every Wednesday and Friday but it is now about 10 years since any service was performed in it. Certified An. 1717'. He also noted that the Consistory Court has been held in the chapel time out of mind, The Archdeaconry of Richmond in the Eighteenth century: Bishop Gastrell's 'Notitia', The Yorkshire Parishes, 1714-1725, ed. L.A.S. Butler, Yorks. Arch. Soc., vol. 146 (1990), 130. In 1733 noted as ruinous at visditation. Soon after 1740, when a row of shops were built on the site of whast had been the south aisle, 'the inhabitants began to repair the fabric, which had become desecrated, and put it to its proper use, since when services have been regularly held in it', VCH, Yorks: North Riding, I, 31.